US Patent Issued to Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey on Dec. 2 for "Porous epoxy nanocomposite monoliths" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,374, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Porous epoxy nanocomposite monoliths" was invented by Jonathan P. Singer (Cranford, N.J.) and Molla Hasan (Piscataway, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of preparing a porous material includes preparing a mixture of from about 10 to about 30% by mass of a matrix material, from about 20 to about 60% by mass of a plurality of particles, from about 20 to about 60% by mass of a porogen, and from about 1 to about 10% by mass of an interfacial compatibilizer. The matrix material and the porogen may be selected so as to be phas...